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Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
- Authors:
- AIDUKAITE Jolanta, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, early cite 26 January 2021,
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic by focusing on Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. Our findings show that governments in all four countries reacted to the COVID‐19 crisis by providing extensive protection for jobs and enterprises. Differences arise when it comes to solidaristic policy responses to care for the most vulnerable population, in which CEE countries show great variation. We find that social policy responses to the first wave of COVID‐19 have largely depended on precious social policy trajectories as well as the political situation of the country during the pandemic.
Report on the employment of disabled people in European countries: Slovakia
- Authors:
- HANZELOVA Eneke, BRICHTOVA Lydia, REPKOVA Kvetoslava
- Publisher:
- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 22p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Utrecht
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Focusing on Slovakia, this is one of a series of reports reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. The Labour Force Survey 2008-2009 indicates that the employment rate for disabled people rose from 8.74% to 9.16% in the first quarter of 2009. The equivalent figure for the non-disabled population was 53.7%. The Act on Employment Services requires that 3.2% of employees in companies with more than 20 staff to have a disability. New labour market policy measures for people with disabilities came into force in May 2008. The economic crisis has resulted in a 1% decline in labour demand in the first half of 2009. There has been parallel growth in the number of people with disabilities registering with public employment offices.
Long-term care in Central and South-Eastern Europe: challenges and perspectives in addressing a `new' social risk
- Author:
- OSTERLE August
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 44(4), August 2010, pp.461-480.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Long-term care in Central and South-Eastern Europe (CSEE) has to date been largely neglected in the social policy literature. This neglect is in part a reflection of the fact that long-term care remains largely a family responsibility. This article explores whether countries in CSEE should follow a broader European trend of major, partly path-departing long-term care reforms. It provides an examination of the context and the sources of reform of long-term care in CSEE, particularly Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It studies developments in the light of the major principles underlying the transition process and discussing key features of current developments in terms of their potential for establishing a new paradigm in long-term care policies. The article argues that the realisation of more comprehensive long-term care systems has been largely hindered by a failure of governments to set priorities in this sector, by the limitations civil society finds in bringing the issue into a broader public debate and by fears that new welfare schemes will substantially extend public expenditure obligations. It concludes that long-term care is a latecomer in welfare state development in CSEE, but that ageing societies, growing care needs and broader socio-economic developments will also increasingly challenge traditional ways of organising long-term care and create pressure to find new welfare approaches.